464985 - Changes to "Print Background Images/Colors" checkboxes don't persist, on Linux

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P5)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] (PTO until 2/24)]

EXPERIMENT B:
 0. (Start with a fresh profile, if necessary)
 1. Load attachment 348248 [details] (or any other page with a background)
 2. File | Print
 3. Go to "Options" tab, and check "Print Background Images"
 4. Click 'Print'
 5. File | Print again
 6. Go to "Options" tab

EXPECTED RESULTS: "Print Background Images" should still be checked.
ACTUAL RESULTS:   "Print Background Images" is *not* checked

EXPERIMENT B:
 0. In about:config, create a boolean pref called "print.print_bgimages", and set it to "true"
 1. Load attachment 348248 [details] (or any other page with a background)
 2. File | Print
 3. Go to "Options" tab (NOTICE: "Print Background Images" is already checked!) and **uncheck** Print Background images.
 4. Click 'Print'
 5. File | Print again
 6. Go to "Options" tab
EXPECTED RESULTS:  "Print Background Images" should still be unchecked.
ACTUAL RESULTS:    "Print Background Images" is checked

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081114 Minefield/3.1b2pre

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] (PTO until 2/24)]

So it looks like every time we print, we write the "print background images" setting out to "print.[PrinterName].print_bgimages".

But we never actually read from that pref -- we only read from the "print.print_bgimages" pref. (which there's no UI to configure, and which has a default value of "false")

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] (PTO until 2/24)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> EXPERIMENT B:
>  0. (Start with a fresh profile, if necessary)

oops... that first one was supposed to be "EXPERIMENT A"

Comment 3

[m]

(In reply to comment #1)
> So it looks like every time we print, we write the "print background images"
> setting out to "print.[PrinterName].print_bgimages".
> 
> But we never actually read from that pref -- we only read from the
> "print.print_bgimages" pref. (which there's no UI to configure, and which has a
> default value of "false")

I think the same applies to "print.print_bgcolor" / "print.[PrinterName].print_bgcolor" properties.

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] (PTO until 2/24)]

Yeah, I think this applies to a whole bunch of print preferences.

Comment 5

[Carey Evans]

For what it's worth, I still get this with Firefox 3.5rc2 on Linux.

It looks like bug 429189 and bug 472432 are duplicates.

Comment 7

[Jan Horak [:jhorak]]

This issue should be fixed by bug 446041.

Comment 8

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552613

Comment 9

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] (PTO until 2/24)]

This is now WORKSFORME; I just tested using our built-in tab-modal print dialog, and after a successful print (to the Save To PDF print backend) with this checkbox checked, the checkbox is again checked the next time I attempt to print.